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Nick Nolte
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" You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars. "
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" If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life. "
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" No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way. "
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" The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence. "
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" Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination. "
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" I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you. "
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" I can't get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I - in my research, I probably have a lack of D1 and D2 receptor sites. These are dopamine receptor sites, and satiation is a process that involves a cascade. "
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" I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed, 'Here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.' "
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" American society is still puritanical. "
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" I never caught on to being a bully. "
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" Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie. "
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" In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body. "
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" With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling. "
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" Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.' "
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" Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying. "
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" I'm glad I never went to war. "
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" I've been in movies where the movie doesn't come together but the role comes together, or the movie comes together but the role doesn't come together or something like that. Something misses. It's very difficult to make it hit on all cylinders - it's just very rare. "
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